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Here’s the deal: guess who’s going to die, and what issue their death will land on. If two people guess the same character, whoever posted the comment first wins it. Guessing “nobody” is a valid choice; if nobody gets the issue, we’ll go by who guessed the character.

We’ve got the line-up broken out by Marvel themselves up there. Go to it.

I’m going to say Colossus in the second to last issue. Using the demon behind the Juggernaught to go head-to-head with the Phoenix as a delaying tactic. It frees up the Juggernaught to go on to someone else (maybe even back to Marko) and could possibly kick-off a mini where Magik has to go into the Netherworld to bring back her brother.

It should be someone who’s been connected with both teams through the years (and Spider-Woman was roughly spun into X-tales back when Claremont was writing both books at the same time), but Beast and Wolverine are too popular. Beyond that, Bendis brought Jessica Drew back to some prominence starting in his run on Alias, so since he’s leaving the Avengers stories, he’s taking her with him.

I would hate to see this happen, but I would be more inclined to believe this scenario with Jessica Jones. Granted, he DID bring Drew back to some prominence, but he created Jones and has been the only voice for her (right?). Think of the ramifications this would have on Luke Cage, who would then be a single father (unless the baby actually DOES turn out to be a Skrull sleeper, and this has just been the LONGEST reveal ever).

After reading this week’s New Avengers it simply HAS to be either Luke Cage or Jessica Jones. You don’t spend that much time establishing how much they love each other unless you’re going for the big emotional payoff later on.

The Marvel Boy mini was great, but now nobody knows what to do with Noh Varr. Turning him into Protector? Lame. Captain Marvel is coming back in Secret Avengers? Ms. Marvel is changing her name to Captain Marvel and getting her own series? Protector has no place and no purpose.

The only other two people I could possibly see it happening to are Captain Britain or Valkyrie. Both are easily replaceable. Marvel has precious few recognizable African American (or just African in Black Panther’s case) characters, so I doubt he, War Machine or Luke Cage will be put to pasture (especially War Machine since he’s all up in the Iron Man movies.

Isn’t the above graphic missing some characters? I know from other promotional materials that X-Men like Gambit, Rogue, Storm, Psylocke, Angel, Magik, Iceman, and Warpath will all be in the mix. Plus I’m assuming Scarlet Witch is an option for the axe.

No one dies. I am guessing that Hope and the lights join with the Phoenix force in issue12 to repower the mutants then fly off. Either Cyclops or Scarlet Witch take kenji’s place, maybe both if they want to keep Oroya around to anoy Quentin Quire.

Iron Fist (Danny Rand) issue 11. I came to this conclusion due to the outline in the solicits being a male in a pretty Iron Fist kinda pose, plus if you look at the cover for ‘Defenders #11′ there is an outline around the tiny picture of Iron Fist that the others don’t have, almost like they have pasted in an image of the regular Iron Fist, as I suspect that post AvX Hope will be the new Iron Fist.

I’m guessing Professor X in issue #11. He loves his kids so he would probably be willing to sacrifice himself for them. Also, it would be a good way for everyone to come to their senses. As a member of the Illuminati, even many Avengers like him.